Last Survivor of Stalag Luft III "Great Escape" dies

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100608/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_obit_great_escape
I hadn’t realized the others were all gone. Heck, they’d had a reunion when I was in grad school.
I read and re-read my copy of Brickhill’s book to pieces, and collected other books on the camp. I was always fascinated by their ingenuity and resourcefulness.

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Or did he???

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Jack Harrison. Stories here and here.

Sir, I salute you.

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I love the stilted English in the first story:

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Salute!

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I moved two posts from a newer thread by Siam Sam into this thread.

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Thanks! I missed the first thread.

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This is weird. While almost 9 years ago Cal Meacham writes: Last Survivor of Stalag Luft III “Great Escape” dies, today I am reading an article:

Last member of real-life Great Escape team dies aged 99: Dick Churchill escaped from German prison camp in a feat immortalised in the film starring Steve McQueen

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Apparently one of the survivors died in 2015, too. To be fair, that’s about the level of accuracy I expect from Yahoo News.